Prong-fastener for gown decorations.



H. E. MERTZ. PRONG FASTENER FOR Goww DECORATIONS.

APPLICATION HLED SEPT 24.191]- menm Feb. 18, 1.919.

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be it known that ll 'HERMI E jE orLBAUM than, a citizen of the United States, nesiding at Farmington, in the county of San J0- aquin, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Prong-Fasteners for-Gown Decorations and I do declare the following to be a -full, clear,

and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to "the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in fasteners for securing ornaments, such as buttons, buckles, braid, fiouncing, =etc., to gowns. The object of the invention is to provide a means ofdetachably fastening ornaments to the gown, so that a multiform gown may be produced, merely by interchanging the ornamentation thereon.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claims.

lin the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation proved fastener, per 86.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation, showing the adaptation of the fastener for the purpose of applying braid, tape, fiouncing or similar ornamentations to the gown.

Fig.4 is a rear elevation of the matter shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the fastener especially adapted for securing sewed-on buttons or similar ornaments.

Fig. 6 is a rear elevation of the subject matter shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the fastener as applied to ready made buttons.

Fig. 8 is an inner-face view of a protecting disk adapted to be placed over the fastening prongs, to prevent the same from engaging the skin of the wearer.

Fig. 9 is a prong receiving disk arranged to be interposed between the disk shown in Fig. 8, and the cloth of the gown.

Fig. 10 is a bottom plan view, partly of my imsubject specificationof Letters Patent.

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Application filed September 24;, 1917. seriai naaeaeea broken out, showing the combination of the structureshown Figs. 28 and '9.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference ion the drawings, nu-

meral l designates ,the body of the main form of my improved fastener. This lemmembers crossing each other .atright angles, the whole bein bound to gether by an annular .wire :2. The -.'hody members 1 are provided with projecting points 3. In practice, the ornaments, which may he anything desired, are sewed on. to the cross {members of the said ibody 1, and then. by means of the prongs 3, the same maybe removably fastened to the grown at any desired point, or in any desired manner.

I-njFig. '3 I show theadaptation of the fastener to decorations having lconsi-derahle length, such as braid, tape, flouncing and In this adaptation of *the'invention, the body members 1 are spaced from each other in parallel relation, and the bind. ing wire 2 extends across the same at right angles thereto. The prongs 3 project beyond the wire 2.

The ornament is sewed to the parallel members 1 and the prongs are then used in detachably fastening the same.

The structure shown in Fig. 5 is used as a fastener for sewed-on buttons. In this figure, the body 1 consists of an annular disk, provided with a central elongated slot 4. The wire 2 is crimped underneath the outer slot. The fastening prongs 3 project outwardly from the periphery of the disk 1*. The ornament is sewed by means of the thread being extended through the slot 4 and sewed around the wire 2 The same is then .detachably fastened to the gown by means of the prongs 3 In Fig. 7 the fastener is shown the same as in Figs. 5 and 6, but in this latter view is shown a ready made button fixed to the fastener. In this view, 1 designates the body of the fastener provided with a slot 4", and prongs 3. A looped wire 2 is fixed across the slot 4*, while the button 5 is permanently attached to the wire 2 by means of an eye 6. This form of button may likewise be detachably fastened to the gown by means of the pron 3.

In Figs. 8, 9 an 10, I show a protecting cover for the prongs of the fastener. This structure embodies an outer disk 7 having the disk readily seen that I have V shaped incisions 8. Turnably riveted to the disk 7 is aninner disk 9, provided with grooves 10, in its face adapted to bemoved into or out ofregisterwith'the incisions8. As the disk 9 is turned'relative to the disk 7,: he incisions 8 are brought into register with'the grooves 10.

The prongs of the fastener being bent at right angles and pressed through the cloth of the garment, the cover device" is theninserted between the prongs with the disk 9 against the cloth. The prongs are then bent down through theincisions 8 in the disk7,

" From ;do not: form a departure from the spirit of Copies ot thia patent may be obtained. for

provided With a V In testimony the invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what 'I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A fastener comprising a body member central slot, a wire fixed to thebody member and extending lengthwise across the slot whereby buttons or other articles may be attached thereto, and )rongs projecting-from the edges of the b0 y and adapted to be pressed through the cloth of a garment and be bent over inwardly when pressed therethrough.

2. A fastener comprising a body member having projecting prongs, and means for covering the prongs when bent, such means comprising a disk having grooves, a second disk turnable ,on the first disk and provided with incisions arranged to be brought into register with the grooves whereby the prongs may be bent through the incisions and into the grooves, the second disk then being turned to move the incisions out of register with the grooves and to cover the prongs.

whereof I affix my signature.

'HERMINE EICHBAUM MERTZ.

five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner 0! Patenta. Washington, D. 01" 

